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Re:Snowden leak: Cavium networking hardware may contain NSA ... by jstarfish on Tuesday September 19, 2023 @04:05PM (#37575738)
If only. The biggest problems right now are limited context size and basic security, including having to share such documents with God-knows-how-many third parties.

Tangent, but we use Azure instead of OpenAI due to data-retention concerns. To ensure nobody's inputting anything classified or proprietary, Legal demanded implementation of an "AI safety" tool...so we demoed one that ships all prompts to a third party's regex-retraction API.

So you never know who ends up the recipient of your LLM prompt, where it's getting logged to, who's reviewing those logs, etc. Even some local models require execution of arbitrary code, and Gradio ships telemetry data. Uploading Snowden's docs into a black box is a good way to catch a ride in a black van.

Re:Snowden leak: Cavium networking hardware may contain NSA ... by ormax3 on Tuesday September 19, 2023 @06:10PM (#37577628)
Nowadays even consumer-level hardware can run some decent local LLMs, completely offline.

You might want to browse /r/LocalLLaMA/ if "security" is an issue for you.